Why can't i play Nazi's?
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twice actually, but they're too busy ignoring reality to spout stuff about how they feel about nazi's.Zac_Dai said:
Yeah! it should be on the wii too, and it'll be called "Auschwitz: You got Gas!" and include fun motion sensitive mini games like "stop the runner," "Enforcing Forced Labor," and "Not Really a Shower"
In all due seriousness, even if it was just a war game where you fought for the nazi side people would find it to be in bad taste.
In all due seriousness, even if it was just a war game where you fought for the nazi side people would find it to be in bad taste.
ok i got one for you hearts of iron 2 or 3 if your are a guy with a brain of a supercomputer you pick your contyr and you pick what your contry does (yess you can kill canada) choose your teck and spies it fun but slow as hell
Certainly possible, I know I certainly can't claim knowledge of every title released in the last 5 years for PC, let alone cross-platform, but I may have at least heard about some of the AAA ones. 
How bad is your self-esteem that you have to correct grammar- incredibly MINOR grammar errors- in order to make yourself feel superior? You know what? Don't answer. It isn't relevant, and I really don't care.Glefistus said:
Just to clarify: The discussion isn't whether Nazis were sweet or caring people. The discussion is why won't developers allow gamers to play as Nazis. I've explained it. You've given no counter argument as to why developers should allow gamers to play as Nazis, except "but they were HUMAN!" I will again explain the real issue again, in case you were somehow confused.
REGARDLESS of whatever excuse a Nazi soldier has for fighting, no one wants to play as a hypocrite. I'm sure many Nazi soldiers weren't happy about what was going on in the war- they still fought. They didn't have a choice, sure, but they still fought. It might be unfair to label them as such, but it doesn't change the fact that it's hypocritical. And, again, no one wants to play as a hypocrite.
Just to go ahead and get it out of the way: if you continue to ignore the real discussion, I'm not going to bother replying. In other words, if you're going to come back with all this garbage about Nazis being real humans, without even mentioning the words "video game" or "developer" then don't bother.
I want to see this happen. Hell I'm already considering becoming a renactor as a Nazi. My cousin is one already! By the way who gives a fuck if they were evil or if they were humans. It doesn't matter if its a rapest, murderer, or a nazi. I find it interesting to figure out why anyone does anything.
Not to mention the fact that doing things from a Nazi perspective could be interesting if not exactly politically correct. Consider that Hitler's people were responsible for recovering some of the greatest treasures and artworks in the world. A lot of museum collections would not be anything like what they are now if not for his ruthlessness.
Nazi fascination with The Occult does not always mean that they have to be the bad guys in that respect (summoning demons to destroy the allies). You could just as easily have secret groups of Nazis fighting against supernatural evil to protect humanity as the other side.
Understand that a massive propaganda campaign was leveled against the Nazis, a good portion of it being lies (such as the human skin lampshades). I do not inherantly consider that to be a bad thing, as during a REAL war it's important to demonize/dehumanize your enemies. However, it does mean that there is a lot of pressure built up to keep them purely as stock villains.
Basically if your going to have a Nazi who isn't a brainless stormtrooper, or a cackling villain, you had best have him as a traitor to the SS and surrounded by the brainless stormtroopers and cackling villains for the sake of comparison.
There are also games like Axis and Allies that let you play as the Nazis. However it is true up until this point that there hasn't been much done outside of a strategic level.
Nazi fascination with The Occult does not always mean that they have to be the bad guys in that respect (summoning demons to destroy the allies). You could just as easily have secret groups of Nazis fighting against supernatural evil to protect humanity as the other side.
Understand that a massive propaganda campaign was leveled against the Nazis, a good portion of it being lies (such as the human skin lampshades). I do not inherantly consider that to be a bad thing, as during a REAL war it's important to demonize/dehumanize your enemies. However, it does mean that there is a lot of pressure built up to keep them purely as stock villains.
Basically if your going to have a Nazi who isn't a brainless stormtrooper, or a cackling villain, you had best have him as a traitor to the SS and surrounded by the brainless stormtroopers and cackling villains for the sake of comparison.
There are also games like Axis and Allies that let you play as the Nazis. However it is true up until this point that there hasn't been much done outside of a strategic level.
It won't sell in germany at all, and most game companies are just writing for the lowest common denominator. Companies are just not willing to touch on tough political and philosophical issues. They want to play it safe and the only thing close to a message is the mild prejudice between elves and dwarves. I mean when Fallout 3 gets an award for outstanding writing you know there is a problem in the game industry.